| Variety |
Description |
Best
Uses |
Special
Hints |
Availability |
Bartlett
 |
- medium-sized or larger
- sweet-spiced flavor
- Russeting is a natural
appearance for Bosc
|
- Eaten fresh or in salads,
canned, baked or poached
|
Bartlett pears are ripe when
they turn completely yellow and give off a sweet aroma.
To test for ripeness, gently push your thumb into the pear
near the stem as pears ripen from the inside out.
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Flemish
Beauty |
- Large,
round fruit
- aromatic,
- rich
flavor
|
- Excellent
dessert quality
|
Most
winter-hardy pear
|
- Precocious
and productive. Early ripening.
|
Bosc
|
- relatively crunchy when
ripe
- sweet-spiced flavor
- Russeting is a natural appearance for Bosc
|
- ideal for use in cooking; baking, broiling, poaching
|
Bosc become sweeter, and more flavorful earlier in the
ripening process than other varieties
|
|
Anjou
|
- Anjou
pears are more egg-shaped
- very aromatic
- very sweet and juicy when ripe
|
- good baking, poaching or roasting pear
- Good for salads and eating
|
They do not change color as they
ripen.
Check for ripeness by pressing gently
with the thumb near the stem end of the pear. When it gives
slightly, the pear is ripe.
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Early Goldens
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Shiro(Japanese)
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German
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Italian
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